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There is a suggested donation of $4 for seniors age 60 and
over. There is a charge of $5 for the meal for those younger
than age 60. Call (208) 743-8983 for home delivered meals.

Clarkston meals are served Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays at the Pautler Senior Center.
Asotin meals are served Tuesday and Thursday. No
salad bar on Tuesday. Salad bar starts at 11:30 a.m.
Suggested donation is $3 for those 60 and older. For
those younger than 60, the cost is $6. Home-delivered
meals are available by calling 758-3816.

Moscow meals are served at noon on Tuesdays and
Thursdays in the Great Room of the 1912 Center,
412 East Third St., Moscow. Suggested donations are $4
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AARP will begin at noon April
7th at the Pautler Senior Center
at 549 Sixth St. in Clarkston.
Cost for the lunch is $6.
Entertainment will be provided
by Kathy Dunlap on violin and

Cameron Layes on Piano. Ken
Mclaughlin will talk about the
history of local telephone service.
All seniors are invited to
attend, Reservations can be
made by calling Ruth at (509)
758-2448.

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12 at Trinity Lutheran Church,
920 Eighth Ave., in Lewiston.
The group offers advice, support and information to diabetics, their family or friends or
anyone interested in diabetes.
Diabetic supplies, magazines
and literature are available at the
meetings.

More information is available
by calling Arlene Mansfield at
(208) 743-6676.

Retired feds group
sets April meeting
Chapter 515 of the National
Active and Retired Federal
Employees will have its April
meeting at noon on the 28th at
Macullen’s Restaurant at 1516
Main St. in Lewiston.
The program will be presented
by Charlotte Ash, who will discuss the services provided by the
Snake River Community Clinic.
All current and retired federal
employees are welcome. More
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Senior Center in Clarkston at 3
p.m. May 28 for the Stars on Ice
show in Spokane. The cost is
$75 and includes transportation,
dinner and the show. The bus
will return to the Pautler Center
about 11:30 p.m. Reservations
must be made by May 14th, and
no refunds will be given after
that date.
This is the only time the trip
will be offered.
There are 45 seats available,
and the trip is open to the public.
For more information, contact Lorrie at the Pautler Senior
Center at (509) 758-4064.

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MARCH 28

IN BRIEF
Sons of Norway
sets April meeting
The Sons of Norway Elvedalen
Lodge No. 129 will conduct its
April meeting at 1 p.m. on the
17th at the Pautler Senior Center
at 549 Sixth St. in Clarkston.
The meeting will begin with a
potluck followed by a short business meeting.
The heritage program will be
on Norway during World War
II.
Sons of Norway is open
to all people of Scandinavian
descent or those just interested
in Scandinavian culture.
Visitors are always welcome.
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birthday
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to Clem and Philomena Frei,
the 10th of 15 children. He
graduated from Ferdinand
High School and then farmed
until he enlisted in the U.S.
Army Air Forces in 1942.
Ray served four years as an
airplane mechanic; Howard
Hughes was one of the test
pilots. Ray was discharged
as sergeant in 1946, and he
went back to farming.
He married Carolyn Jones
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in Grangeville for 17 years
before moving to Lewiston.
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birthday April 4 with
a family gathering at
her daughter’s home
in Grangeville. She
was born April 4,
1930, to Joseph and Theresa
Schmidt in Greencreek, the

 Bill Reece
Bill Reece of Lewiston will
celebrate his 85th birthday
with family April, 4. He
was born April 4, 1925, at
Cavendish to Lethco J. and
Georgia C. Reece.
Bill farmed, drove school
bus and with his brother,
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leader, superintendent of the
Clearwater County Fair and
an officer of the Evergreen

and Pomona Granges.
One year, Bill and his wife
Harriet, who have been
married 56 years, were
the grand marshals of the
parade at the Clearwater
County Fair and Lumberjack
Days. The couple are charter members of Fine Gold
Campers. Bill enjoyed dancing, bowling, boating and
fishing. They spent 12 years
as Arizona snowbirds.
Bill has one son, one
daughter and two grandsons.
A daughter died previously.

She is a member of Catholic
Daughters, Christian Mothers,
the Happy Hour Club,
Pinochle Group, the Senior
Citizens and two women’s
card clubs, all in Cottonwood.
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Northwest Bell
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Since retiring, Mary
Jane has traveled
widely, including
South America and
China.
She enjoyed
bowling, fishing and
golfing, and she
now enjoys bridge
and jigsaw puzzles. She lives
in Lewiston with her husband, Hugh.

 Hobert
Lathrop
Hobert
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Lewiston
will celebrate his
89th birthday April
5. He was
born April
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Ore., and moved to the LewisClark Valley in 1954. He reared
his two daughters after his wife
died in 1971. He retired from
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Palmer Chase of
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brate his 85th birthHe attended
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When Frank Hoyt isn’t at his job as a
semi-retired credit manager for the
Lewiston Tribune, the 80 year old is
likely on a horse — either hunting,
packing or as part of the Nez Perce
County Mounted Sheriff’s Posse
By Mary Tatko

Of Target Publications

Clarkston’s Frank Hoyt has a thousand stories to tell, and
there probably are a thousand stories to tell about him, but
when it comes to describing the Lewiston Tribune’s 80-yearold credit guru, publisher Nathan Alford can do it in just three
words:
“Iron cowboy grip.”
Alford was a young boy when he sat around the campfire
listening to Hoyt tell stories, play the ukulele and sing. Today,
Alford is publisher of the newspaper where Hoyt has worked
more than 30 years.
One thing that hasn’t changed in all that time is Hoyt’s
memorable handshake.
“My favorite thing about Frank is his grip,” Alford said.
“He’s got the grip of a cowboy.”

The Old West
When Nathan’s father, semiretired former Tribune publisher
A.L. (Butch) Alford Jr., describes
Hoyt, it’s as a consummate outdoorsman.
“You hear people say ‘That
person should have been born
in the early days of the West,’ ”
Alford said. “Frank fits that in a
perfect sense.”
A member of the Nez Perce
County Mounted Sheriff’s Posse
for more than 30 years, Hoyt has — FRANK HOYT
been riding horses and handling
firearms most of his life.
“We were raised on a ranch
(near St. Helens, Ore.),” he said.
“As soon as you were old enough
to lift a gun, you’d start shooting.”
He’s ridden hundreds of miles throughout Idaho,
Washington and Oregon, including pack trips through the
Bob Marshall, Selway-Bitterroot, Gospel Hump and WenahaTucannon wilderness areas with the sheriff’s posse.
The posse members make a weeklong pack trip every
summer to hone their training and horsemanship skills, Hoyt
explained. This year, they’re going to Hoodoo Lake in the
Bitterroots.
One of his most memorable rides, 140 miles from Lewiston
to Walla Walla through the Blue Mountains, was with the

“We were
raised on a
ranch. As soon
as you were
old enough
to lift a gun,
you’d start
shooting.”

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Tribune/Steve Hanks

Frank Hoyt of Clarkston pauses for a photo with his horse, Paddy, and his
weimeraner pal, Spike.

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Frank is flanked by sons Mark (left) and Tom on a successful hunting trip.

hORSEMAN

From page 8

posse. Another was a 30-day trip
through New Zealand during a
vacation in 1985.
Of all the places he’s ridden, Hoyt said his best memories are from Oregon’s Wallowa
Mountains.
“My kids and I hunted and
packed that,” he said. Hoyt has
a son and daughter; another son
died of cancer as an adult.
Butch Alford has accompanied
Hoyt on many outings, including
a week in the Wallowas when
Nathan was a young boy, a trip
they all remember well.
“Frank taught me the outdoors those early years in the
Wallowas,” Nathan Alford said.
Hoyt can outfit a horse with
a week’s worth of gear for a trip
into the mountains as easily as
most people fill the trunk of a
car, Butch Alford said.
“He can pack a horse as well
as anybody in the 1850s.”
Looking back on their adventures with Hoyt, both Alfords
recalled his vast repertoire of
jokes, stories and ukulele songs.
He’s an incredible trail rider,

horse packer “and a mediocre
bartender,” Butch Alford said,
laughing.
Hoyt points out he’s not the
only skilled rider in his family.
He shared this story about his
wife, Carrie:
“Years ago, we had the horses
ready for a pack trip into the
high Wallowas when Carrie’s
mare started bucking. She lashed
the mare on all four quarters
with her romel (reins). The mare
settled down, and quick. I looked
at that and have never sassed that
lady since.”

Posse Perfect
One of the many photographs
on Hoyt’s office wall at the
Tribune shows him with Carrie
and close friends Wayne and
Jeanette Schwenne on a pack trip
into the Eagle Cap Wilderness
Area in the Wallowas.
For years, the excursion was
an annual event, first with tents,
later with campers. Those are
some of his fondest memories,
Hoyt said.
Though the couples haven’t
made the trip lately, Hoyt and
Schwenne, also 80, still ride
together on their own from time

to time and both volunteer with
the posse, of which Schwenne
has been a member more than
50 years.
“Frank has really been an outstanding sheriff’s posse member,” Jeanette Schwenne said.
“He always comes up with these
things to help out and do. He’s
probably one of the best members the posse’s ever had.”
Wayne Schwenne praised Hoyt
not just for his riding skills, but
for his abilities as an organizer.
“He promotes things along
that ordinarily we would never
get done,” Schwenne said.
Community projects have
been the highlight of his years
with the posse, Hoyt said.
One weekend last month, for
example, a crew of 40 posse
members and other volunteers
rebuilt the riding arena east of the
Nez Perce County Fairgrounds.
One of Hoyt’s favorite posse
events is Operation Challenge,
an annual riding day for disabled children and adults at the
Lewiston Roundup Grounds.
The group also participates
in parades and rodeos throughout the region. This year, its
members will be riding at the
Pendleton Roundup for the
event’s 100th anniversary.

Tribune/Steve Hanks

Frank at his Clarkston home.

(Not Really) Retired
Hoyt began working for
Tribune Publishing full time in
1978 after spending three years
as a consultant traveling from
Walla Walla, where he had a
credit business.
“That’s when I decided to
settle down and quit driving,”
he said.
In the 32 years since, he’s
become as close to indispensable
as an employee can get.
He retired from his credit
manager position about 10 years
ago, but didn’t stop working for
Tribune Publishing. Instead, the
company hired him on a contract
basis to continue his work part
time.
“I don’t know if it was because
I was doing a good job or they
didn’t want to clean this room

out,” Hoyt said, leaning back in
his chair and surveying dozens
of framed photographs of pack
trips, posse members and his
weimaraner hunting dog, Spike.
Butch Alford would argue it’s
the former.
“Ever since Frank Hoyt came,
we’ve run way below the industry norm on past-due accounts
receivable,” he said.
Hoyt handles all the advertising accounts for the Tribune and
Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
“Anyone who gets behind,”
Hoyt said. “My job is to keep
them fairly current.”
Several days a week, he’s in
his office at 6:30 a.m., making
calls to advertising agencies on
the East Coast where business
already is under way.

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horseman

From page 9

In an economy like the country
has experienced the past couple
years, Hoyt said he’s thankful
for the “good cash flow and low
write-off,” he said is the norm at
Tribune Publishing.
Even so, he’s been especially

busy lately.
“You have to make more deals,”
he said of tracking down past-due
accounts during a recession.
“He establishes a relationship
with customers,” Butch Alford
said. “He makes it possible for
them to continue to do business.”
It takes a combination of “the
iron fist and the velvet glove,”
Hoyt said. “We try to help them

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if it can be done.”
It’s a job he hopes to do for at
least a couple more years.
“It’s been a wonderful place
to work,” he said.

Old Time Religion
In March, Hoyt traveled to St.
Helens to attend a memorial service for his mother, Mary, who
died in December at 102.
She lived a good, long life, so
the gathering wasn’t an entirely
sad occasion, but it got Hoyt
thinking.
“I probably should spend
some time in church,” he said.
“But I probably won’t.”
Raised an Episcopalian, he
Tribune/Steve Hanks
finds spirituality elsewhere
today.
Frank adjusts Paddy’s bridle.
To him, Hoyt said, religion is
“It makes you appreciate
being on a horse 8,000 feet up on wilderness, maybe with a mounjust being alive,” he said.
a pass overlooking an expanse of tain lake or stream in view.

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at the beautiful red rose and how tall it is. How
did it get in the middle of the briars and thistles?”
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ing World War II. After his
discharge, he worked three
years for Camas Prairie
Railroad.
Smitty retired after 40
years in the car business.
Smitty married Charlotte
Chaffins in 1972, and they
each contributed three chil-

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 Warren (Smitty) Smith
Warren
(Smitty)
Smith will
celebrate
his 85th
birthday
from 1
to 4 p.m.
April 11,
at Sunset
Heights
home park
at 2115 Sixth Ave., Clarkston,
at the recreation center, No.
84. His family will serve as
hosts for the event, and they
ask for no gifts, please.
Smitty was born April 7,
1925, in Lewiston, but he has
lived all his life in Clarkston,
except for the three years
he spent in the Navy dur-

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 Aretha Chilton
Aretha Chilton of Orofino will celebrate
her 97th birthday April 8. She was born April
8, 1913, at Harrisburg, near Kamiah, and
graduated from Kamiah High School. She
then attended the University of Idaho and
then taught school for 10 years.
Aretha moved to Orofino in 1935 and

married Lee Chilton in 1939. They reared
three children. Aretha worked in the Orofino
Library from 1957 to 1960, and then she
worked for the Clearwater National Forest
as a personnel assistant from 1960 until her
retirement in 1975.
She is a retired senior volunteer and hospice volunteer. She enjoys many hobbies and
crafts.

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be hosts for the
event.
Jeanette was
born April 12, 1925,
in Genesee to Farol
and Albert Werncke.
She worked as a
waitress in Genesee
and as a flunky in
logging camps near
Headquarters. Fr.
McBride at St. Mary Catholic
Church married Jeanette
and Donald Boehm in 1948
in Genesee, and they reared
six children. Donald died in
1996 after 48 years of mar-

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Dixie Browning of Juliaetta
will celebrate her 90th birthday April 13. She was born
April 13, 1920, to Eva and
Warren Peters in Crane, Mo.
Her family moved to
Juliaetta in 1938. While
Dixie was baby-sitting in
Kendrick, she saw a young
man named Jack Browning,
another transplanted
Missourian. They were married that same year.
In 1965, Dixie, Jack and
their two children established Browning Cut Stock;
the business is still in the
family. Jack died in 1997
after 59 years of marriage.
Dixie enjoys her home
and yard and her friends
and family. She loves being
a grandmother. She also
likes listening to music and
watching TV. She is a fan of
Gonzaga mens basketball.
In addition to her children, Dixie has four grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and one great-greatgrandchild.

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 ELSIE WOLVERTON
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Lewiston will celebrate her
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 ELVA MORRISON
Elva Morrison will celebrate her 100th birthday
with an open house from
2 to 4 p.m. April 15 in the
day room at Clarkston Care
Center. She was born April
15, 1910, 13 miles east of
Pomeroy to Robert L. and
Lila M. Wilson Howell.
In 1919, her family moved
to Clarkston, and she graduated from Clarkston High
School in 1929.
In 1923 or 1924, she and a
friend took an airplane ride
over the valley; the pilot
scared them to death by
ﬂying under the old bridge

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married Albert Wolverton,
and they had three children.
She enjoys dancing, sewing,
growing roses and camping.
Albert died in 2009 after

63 years of marriage.
In addition to her children, Elsie has nine grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

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between
Lewiston
and
Clarkston.
She
graduated from
LewisClark
Normal
School in
1932.
She owned the Rendezvous
Cafe in Lewiston with her
sister Edith for awhile,
worked at Woolworth’s and
in 1949 began her career
with J.C. Penney. She met
the founder of the company,
James Cash Penney, and she

toured the only Penney’s
store in the Hawaiian
Islands.
She retired in 1970 after
21 years.
She married Lester
Morrison in 1939; he died in
1982 after 43 years of marriage.
Elva has been a member
of the Clarkston United
Methodist Church since 1923.
Elva liked to travel. She
loves organ music and is
a past president of the
Lewiston-Clarkston Organ
Society.
She has a cousin and two
nieces, along with two nephews by marriage.

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April 16
 Theresa Sonnen
Theresa Sonnen
will celebrate her
80th birthday April
20. She was born
April 20, 1930,
in Keuterville to
Herman and Mary
Uptmor.
She attended
high school at

 Evabelle Heuett
Evabelle Heuett will celebrate her 75th
birthday April 16. She was born April 16,
1935, to Wilbur and Belle Watson at their
ranch four miles north of Craigmont.
She began her education in 1940 at the
Hart School near her home and graduated
from Craigmont High School in 1952.
She lives with her husband Jack near
Culdesac. They have one son and one
grandson.

St. Gertrude’s
Academy in
Cottonwood
and later graduated from Kinman
Business University
in Spokane. She
then moved back
to Cottonwood and
worked at First
National Bank.

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april 19
 Marjorie
Eldridge
Marjorie Eldridge
of Lewiston will
celebrate her 89th
birthday April 19th
with family. She
was born April 19th,
1921.
She married Elmo
Eldridge in 1940,
and they will celebrate 70
years together in June.
They lived in Kendrick

for 67 years, and
reared three children. A daughter
later died. In addition to their two
children, Marjorie
and Elmo have
eight grandchildren
and nine greatgrandchildren.
Marjorie worked
at Farmers Bank, now Wells
Fargo, for 26 years, retiring
in 1981.

 Siegrid E.
MacDonald
Siegrid E.
MacDonald will
celebrate her 75th
birthday April
21. She was born
April 21, 1935, in
Ulm, Germany,
and attended high
school and college
in Germany.
She met her husband,
Rodger, who was with the

Gertrude married
Richard Schmidt
in 1943, and they
reared three daughters. They ranched
in Kamiah, and
in 1952 bought
13 acres in the
Clemans Addition in
Clarkston.
Richard died in

1987.
In addition to her daughters, Gertrude has six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

military police,
in 1958, and they
married in 1959.
Siegrid moved to
Lewiston in 1960
to join Rodger, who
was a Lewiston
Police officer.
Siegrid worked
for the North Idaho
Children’s Home
for more than eight years,
and she worked seven years
at the Nez Perce County

Courthouse.
She managed Andrews
Hallmark for 17 years and
retired in 1998.
Siegrid enjoys nature,
traveling, music, reading
and photography, as well as
her monthly Red Hat Society
meetings and playing dominoes with her friends.
She and Rodger have two
children, four grandchildren
and three great-grandchildren. A grandson died in 2003.

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 Grace Eldred
Grace Eldred will celebrate her 85th
birthday April 22. She was born April 22,
1925, in Fargo N.D. She married James
Eldred in 1945 in Plentywood, Mont.
Grace and James reared seven children. James died in 1988.
Grace retired from the Idaho State
Liquor Store in 1995.
In addition to her children, she has 18
grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. She enjoys being with her family and dancing and
dining with her friend Carlos.

 Mary Perata
Mary Perata of Orofino will
celebrate her 74th birthday
April 23.
She was born in Norman,
Okla., April 23, 1936, one
of four children. Mary was
active in the Methodist
Church.

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 Gertrude
Schmidt
Gertrude Schmidt
will celebrate her
88th birthday April
20. She was born
April 20, 1922,
in Fort Benton,
Mont., to Fred and
Christina Funke. She
grew up with eight
brothers and sisters on the
family ranch in Cottonwood.
She graduated from
Cottonwood High School.

Theresa married Everett
Sonnen of Greencreek in 1951.
They moved to Cottonwood,
where they still live. She enjoys
traveling, camping, pinochle
and bridge.
Theresa and Everett have
five children, 11 grandchildren,
three step-grandchildren, two
great-grandchildren and nine
step-great-grandchildren.

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 Elmo Eldridge
Elmo Eldridge of Lewiston will celebrate his 90th birthday April 23 with
family. He was born April 23, 1920, and
worked for the Burlington Northern
Railroad at Kendrick for 41½ years, retiring in 1980.
He married Marjorie in 1940. They have
two children, eight grandchildren and
nine great-grandchildren. A daughter died
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 John Eagen
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